Ace Combat Headcanons

59. The voice claiming to be Ghost Eye isn’t actually Ghost Eye. It’s Talisman addressing all his allies while pretending to be their favorite AWACS. This is why he calls out Talisman’s lock-ons, can’t see the Nimbus missiles until they enter combat airspace, starts arguing with Shamrock, and also panics when Shamrock later goes down.

58. Belka didn't intend for Excalibur to be a superweapon. It only became one out of circumstance. Initially, Excalibur was designed to fuel sweet raves across the nation.

57. Pix (”I do not see any floating debris in the water.”) is actually just an amateur radio enthusiast who intercepted military chatter and decided to chime in. Because the Osean military is so incompetent, nobody noticed that he does not actually exist among their ranks.

56. Mobius 1 and Cipher aren’t silent protagonists. Their microphones are just broken. This is why Blaze and Talisman can both issue orders to their wingmen as their equipment is all in working order. The former two refuse to fix the issue as they think it brings them good luck.

55. Following the Circum-Pacific War, Nagase left the military to pursue her education in the sciences. She would go on to create many breakthroughs in human spaceflight capabilities, paving the way for colonization of the solar system. Her biggest supporters were Genette, Heartbreak One, Snow, and even Nastasya. Eventually, after they passed away, Nagase's final act was to preserve them forever as a series of clones, fated to live lives of adventure in space on a ship called the Bebop.

54. Every time Melissa made a wish on one of the Ulysses fragments that was burning up in the atmosphere, it came true. However, in a Monkey's Paw-type scenario, every wish granted meant another large fragment would crash into Estovakia.

53. AWACS Oka Nieba is secretly the leader of Yuktobania. His cousin in Usea, who translated the callsign and used it as his own, inspired him to take his mantle back up and lead the Yuktobanian pilots into battle against the Belkans in order to bring glory back to the name of SkyEye.

52. In ancient times, the Strangereal equivalent of Ghengis Khan grew his incredible empire. Khan Nagase sired so many children during his conquest that his lineage makes up anywhere from 6-10% of the world of Strangereal. In the last few generations, many of these descendants were women.

51. Cipher's parents were killed in a war when he was young. The grief from this loss tore him in three ways: A part of him wanted revenge against the world by mercilessly striking down all who dare oppose him; another part of him accepted it as an inevitable effect of war and wanted to help achieve peace by fighting for it tactically and skillfully; and another part recognized the value of human life through this loss and wanted to fight for peace mercifully and honorably.

50. Cipher flew a F-15E which had the exact same paint scheme as his F-15C for ground attack missions. His WSO was PJ's girlfriend.

49. Cipher eventually traveled to Usea to meet Pixy again, and they made up over a couple of beers.

48. The only reason Pixy flew the Morgan at Avalon was because his F-15 broke apart mid-flight after taking off from the XB-0.

47. Pixy’s F-15 was found at an abandoned airfield near Avalon. It was recycled for parts, which eventually found their way onto an ISAF F-15, the one Mobius 1 (formerly Cipher) used midway through the war. When he saw the vertical stabilizer’s old faded number, he muttered “Pixy...”

46. SkyEye is as capable a fighter pilot as the others in ISAF’s Air Force, but he chose and prefers maintaining a support role instead of dogfighting with the rest.

45. Shamrock and Melissa Herman married after the Emmeria-Estovakia War. Talisman visits often, and Matilda (Melissa’s daughter) treats him as an uncle.

44. After Cipher retired, the man who purchased his F-15C couldn’t get it in a museum, so he put it back on the market. It was bought by another up-and-coming mercenary pilot, Mobius 1. Erich Klinsmann, aka Yellow 13, always had flashbacks to the Belkan War whenever he saw the aircraft, believing its pilot to be the Demon Lord returning to haunt him.